{"id":3323,"date":"2021-08-26T17:25:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T21:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2021-08-26T17:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T21:25:05","slug":"this-woman-collected-over-8000-books-and-fulfilled-her-dream-of-opening-a-bookstore-while-recovering-from-a-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/08\/26\/this-woman-collected-over-8000-books-and-fulfilled-her-dream-of-opening-a-bookstore-while-recovering-from-a-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"This Woman Collected Over 8000 Books and Fulfilled Her Dream of Opening a Bookstore While Recovering from a Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 65-year-old woman has fulfilled her life-long dream of opening a bookstore. Carole-Ann Warburton dreamt of opening her very own bookstore, but this was a dream she has never spoken of aloud.<\/p>\n

After collapsing at home in 2010, vomiting, experiencing disorientation to later on getting diagnosed with an inner-ear infection, Warburton thought of what she would do moving forward. Her daughter brought some real estate listings for her mom to see if one of them might be a home she\u2019d think her mom might want to spend her golden years in, and coincidentally, amongst those listings, Warburton noticed a small barbershop with an above-stairs apartment.<\/p>\n

Although Warburton admitted \u201cthe place was awful,\u201d she saw potential in the apartment-shop, and felt like it was love at first sight. She saw it as the perfect opportunity to do something she\u2019d always wanted to do, work in a bookshop.<\/p>\n

Within three months, she handed over her retirement notice, bought the store, sold her house, and after collecting between 8,000 to 9,000 books from her personal inventory, she launched \u2018The Book Rest<\/strong><\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n

For Warburton, she admits letting go of her books has been an adjustment, but it’s one she feels the better for making.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt still feels, when a special book goes out, like a bit of a loss \u2013 as if some little part of me has been taken away,\u201d she told The Guardian<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cAnd then I make common sense come back to me and say \u2018Let someone else learn from it.\u2019 It\u2019s a growing up, if you like, an acceptance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Book Rest has now celebrated its 10th anniversary, and although the pandemic has slowed foot traffic, she says she has no plans to close up the shop. In fact, she hopes to stay around for as long as she can. Warburton says she believes the bookstore is an opportunity to help others realize their dreams as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the dreams are in the books,\u201d she says. \u201cThey are all there waiting to be picked up\u2026 Someone can walk in tomorrow and say, \u2018I have been looking for that for an awfully long time!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A 65-year-old woman has fulfilled her life-long dream of opening a bookstore. Carole-Ann Warburton dreamt of opening her very own bookstore, but this was a dream she has never spoken of aloud. After collapsing at home in 2010, vomiting, experiencing disorientation to later on getting diagnosed with an inner-ear infection, Warburton thought of what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}